Varnish is a content caching platform, which is occasionally called a caching HTTP reverse proxy. It’s a web application accelerator that can increase the speed of a website by up to one thousand percent, depending on its content. Each time a visitor opens any page on a site that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server when the visitor opens it again. In this way, the web browser request from the visitor is not handled by the server and the web page will load considerably faster, since the Varnish caching platform can serve data many times faster than any server software. The end result is a substantially faster loading page, which leads to a much-improved browsing experience. If any of the cached pages is updated on the actual site, the information that Varnish caches in its system memory is ‘refreshed’ too, so the visitors will not see old information.

Varnish in Shared Website Hosting

If you host your Internet sites under a shared website hosting account with us, you will be able to add Varnish with a few clicks of the mouse from your hosting Control Panel. The caching platform is offered as an upgrade with all our plans and you can choose how many websites will use it and the total storage space that will be available for the cached data. The two features that can be upgraded in the Control Panel’s Upgrades section are the amount of memory and the number of instances and they are not directly linked to each other, so you can choose if you want lots of memory for one large-size website or less memory for multiple smaller ones. You can use the full potential of Varnish if the websites use a dedicated IP address. With the hosting Control Panel, you can easily start/reboot/deactivate an instance, delete the cached contents independently for each site which employs the Varnish platform or view an in-depth system log file.

Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers

Varnish comes by default with all semi-dedicated servers offered by our company and you can use it for workload balancing purposes. It’s available in your Hepsia Control Panel. The Varnish caching platform comes with 64 MB of system memory for cached data storing purposes and you can employ it with any website that you host in the semi-dedicated account. In case you need more than that, you can increase the system memory quota. The memory itself is offered in increments of 32 MB in the Upgrades section of the Control Panel. The same Upgrades section will permit you to activate more instances too, if you wish to use Varnish with more websites. The two upgrades can be ordered independently – you can cache the content of one traffic-heavy website or use several different sites with the default memory allocation. You can take full advantage of the Varnish platform if you use a dedicated IP and you can order one with your semi-dedicated server plan as well. The Hepsia Control Panel will give you complete control over the caching platform and, with no more than one click, you’ll be able to delete the cached contents, to see a system log file or to restart an instance.

Varnish in VPS Servers

You can take advantage of Varnish with any of our VPS server plans at no extra fee, since the content caching platform is pre-installed and is included by default. The only requirement is that the server must come with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you’ll be able to activate Varnish for any of your websites with just a couple of mouse clicks. Each package comes with a different amount of system memory for caching purposes, but you’ll have at least several hundred megabytes, which is enough even for multiple traffic-consuming sites. Shortly after you enable the Varnish platform, it will start caching the content that your website visitors request, so you’ll notice the much better site load speeds and the reduced load on the Virtual Private Server very soon. The caching platform will permit you to use a less costly VPS server, as you won’t require that many resources to warrant the proper operation of your Internet sites even if you manage resource-consuming Internet sites with numerous visitors. Optimum results are achieved if the websites which use the Varnish caching platform also use a dedicated IP address.

Varnish in Dedicated Servers

When you want the most powerful web hosting solution and you order one of the Linux dedicated service that we’re offering, you’ll be able to use the Varnish caching platform to enhance the performance of your websites at no extra cost on the condition that the server is ordered with our advanced Hepsia Control Panel. Its simple-to-use interface will permit you to keep an eye on system processes, to delete the cached content or to restart any instance with a click. The smallest amount of memory that the caching platform can employ to cache Internet site content is 3 GB, which is quite enough for an enormous collection of resource-hungry sites, so your server will be able to handle an enormous system load while your site visitors are enjoying a seamless web browsing experience. As your dedicated server will include several different dedicated IPs, you’ll be able to use Varnish’s full potential.